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This is coming a bit late, but better late than never. The 1st half of this year's collection of DailyQuotes begins now. Below you will be finding an updated list of the funny, silly, thoughtful or wise quotes for 2020. These will also be featured on the community sidebar.

The Dailyquote list for the first 6 months of 2020 starts behind the cut (with links)...


"What would communitarian cosmopolitanism look like?"
(nairiporter)
"Well it starts with a uniform of sophisticated dungarees with rhinestones, and moves on to designer tractor parts and boutique production tools..."
(johnny9fingers)

"The outrage and desire to destroy monuments to slavers exceeds the supply of monuments to slavers."

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"It's all about shaming nowadays. People should be ashamed of themselves."
(
dreamville_bg)

"As Hannah Arendt pointed out many years ago, totalitarianism is constantly in search of enemies. A claimed ally today will become a target for the next Great Purge tomorrow."
(
tcpip)

"Tear gas and rubber bullets. So those were the ominous weapons he had been talking about. Must admit, I'm not impressed. And where are the vicious dogs? Duh. Another promise [Trump]'s failed to keep."
(
dreamville_bg)

"Everything that this society has been for the last century and a half is come back to haunt it. The Devil is gone down in great wrath, and the rest is silence."
(
danceofthelight)

"After all, Magical Sky Fairy Jesus would wave his punctured hands and make it better by all that is holey, but alas, Sky Fairy Jesus was out for Kosher hot dogs and beer, and missed that he was supposed to bail his dumbass followers out, not for the first time in his ill-starred career as a substitute for medical advice."
(
danceofthelight)

"Biden won in SC the other day. The question remains, does he know he won the SC primary for the presidency?"
(
abomvubuso)

"When you don't know where you're going, you usually end up somewhere else".
(
dreamville_bg)

"What is catastrophic is that Mr. Trump's administration continues to use the office for the benefit of himself and his associates and the Senate has said this is just fine. That's catastrophic."
(
mikeyxw)

"The three rules of internet attention: 1. Hilarious 2. Inflammatory 3. Clearly incorrect. (Technically there's also a fourth: Pornographic. But we don't talk about that one.)"
(
garote)

"Being constantly put in challenging situations is what stimulates thinking, creativity, and the drive to learn lots of things, and fast, and then use them in a practical way to solve problems. It's strife that forges a brain, not opulence and complacency."
(
dreamville_bg)

Credits & Style Info

Monthly topic:
Post-Truth Politics Revisited

Dailyquote:
"The NATO charter clearly says that any attack on a NATO member shall be treated, by all members, as an attack against all. So that means that, if we attack Greenland, we'll be obligated to go to war against ... ourselves! Gee, that's scary. You really don't want to go to war with the United States. They're insane!"

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